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Youtopia is a web and mobile application where employees, students, and volunteers earn rewards for their good deeds, academic achievements, and community service. Youtopia also facilitates the tracking and organization of activities that benefit your school and your community.

 

Youtopia credits are earned when Youtopians volunteer at verified charitable organizations throughout your community. As an added incentive, our Redemption Marketplace makes it easy to redeem these credits for rewards like gift cards, electronics and more. We acknowledge that some schools will not want students to be rewarded with products for their service time. Our system will accommodate your school’s specific requirements.

Youtopia points are earned by students, faculty and parents when they complete activities like making healthier choices, participating in extracurricular events and reaching specific social or academic goals set by your school. Redeem these points for items in your Youtopia School Store, an online marketplace filled with fun incentives to encourage better habits among individuals and to improve your school.    

Youtopia badges are earned by students, faculty, parents and your school for completing activities similar to those mentioned above. Traditionally, children have been rewarded with badges in activities such as scouting. Youtopia’s online badges are a quick, simple, visual validation of achievement that will be collected and displayed for their friends and family to see. They’ll show up on your school’s Youtopia online profile, on individual user’s Youtopia online profiles and optionally, on social media profiles. This allows everyone to see what activities you and your school complete.

 

Youtopia’s activity reports allow you to track the progress of your students, employees, and volunteers. Youtopians are now able to provide a systematized activity report to show how much they have accomplished. Not just that they did it, but where, for how long, and how well! Youtopia’s Leaderboard gives you the ability to compare the success of individuals, groups, and other organizations to encourage improvement with a healthy dose of competition. Best of all, these valuable tools help you to quantify your mission when it comes to share your work with your community.  

Youtopia is a modern day gold-star system that allows teachers and administrators to track and reward all kinds of classroom activities. Whenever students complete a designated action like cleaning their desks, demonstrating good social behavior, or acing an assignment - the teacher rewards them with points, badges or both. Youtopia is a robust tool that empowers you to activate students according to your school’s unique goals - whether it’s improving academics, encouraging healthier choices, deterring bullying, or any positive habits your school would like to see its students adopt. It’s up to you to decide the focus of the system and how to apply it to guide student behavior. Youtopia is also a great tool for parents. They’ll receive regular updates on what their child accomplishes, facilitating teacher-to-parent, and parent-to-child communication. Youtopia builds strong communities, promotes progress through healthy competition, and delivers positive feedback. For institutions that require parents to participate in the school’s volunteer service needs, they can use Youtopia to track their own service requirements in easily accessible online reports.

Youtopians who earn credits through our verified volunteer opportunities redeem them in our Redemption Marketplace. Optionally, school-issued points are redeemed for rewards in your Youtopia School Stores. School administrators will have the ability to customize their Youtopia School Stores with all kinds of rewards; whether it’s a locally donated product or service, allowing a student to become principal for a day, or throwing a pizza party for the classroom with the most points! Youtopia makes it easy for an administrator or teacher to set goals and create incentives for students. As your students mature, so does Youtopia. In elementary school, Youtopia gives teachers a tool to help shape healthy behaviors while students develop their social and academic habits. In middle school, students engage in service learning activities that lead to positive character development. This shapes their Youtopia Report Card, so when it comes time to apply to high school, they will present a verified account of their Service Career, including their social and academic accomplishments. Most importantly, Youtopia is a quick, easy, and regular method for parents to see their child’s accomplishments. It also highlights areas needing improvement.  

In high schools, Youtopia gives administrators and teachers a robust tool to track both the internal and external service activities of students. Whether it’s participating on the student council, volunteering in the tutoring center, or helping a local community organization - Youtopia makes it fun and easy for students to give back to their community. Youtopia empowers you to activate students according to your school’s unique goals - whether it’s improving academics, encouraging healthier choices, deterring bullying, or any positive habits your school would like to see its students adopt. It’s up to you to decide the focus of the system and how to apply it to guide student behavior. Youtopia is also a great tool for parents. They’ll receive regular updates on what their child accomplishes, facilitating teacher-to-parent, and parent-to-child communication. Youtopia builds strong communities, promotes progress through healthy competition, and delivers positive feedback. For institutions that require parents to participate in the school’s volunteer service needs, they can use Youtopia to track their own service requirements in easily accessible online reports.

Youtopians who earn credits through our verified volunteer opportunities redeem them in our Redemption Marketplace. Optionally, school-issued points are redeemed for rewards in your Youtopia School Store. Customize your Youtopia School Store with whatever rewards you choose. With Youtopia, it’s easy for an administrator or teacher to set goals and create incentives for students. Every time a student completes an action, it is publicized on Youtopia and throughout their social network - advertising the school’s efforts. The Youtopia Report Card provides each student with a verified account of their Service Career throughout high school. Perfect for inclusion on college applications. Best of all, these activities are organized in a report that’s easy to analyze. They simplify every aspect of assigning, tracking, verifying, and quantifying student service.  
 

Youtopia gives administrators and professors a robust tool to track both the internal and external service activities of students. Whether it’s participating in student government, volunteering in the tutoring center, or helping a local community organization - Youtopia makes it fun and easy for students to give back to their community. Youtopia empowers you to activate students according to your school’s unique goals - whether it’s bolstering your community service programs, improving academics, encouraging healthy and environmentally responsible choices, or any positive habits your school would like to see its students adopt. It’s up to you to decide the focus of the system and how to apply it to guide student behavior. Youtopia streamlines community service programs so that all hours and activities can be logged online. This helps assure that service requirements are completed properly. Youtopia also provides schools with a detailed report of their student activities, allowing progress to be easily tracked and reported. Students also earn rewards for extracurricular academic involvement or taking part in campus activities - enriching campus life on many levels. Every time a student completes an action, it is publicized on Youtopia and throughout their social network - advertising the school’s efforts. Student achievements are tracked, so that when it comes time to apply for jobs they will present their Youtopia Report Card as a verified account of their Service Career. Let Youtopia be the catalyst for engaged education and conscientious community involvement. Youtopia: inspiring passion and progress among students.    

Youtopia is a robust tool that empowers you to activate employees according to your organization’s unique goals - whether it’s improving morale, encouraging healthier choices, deterring absenteeism, or any positive habits your company would like to see employees adopt.

Use Youtopia to track your employees’ socially conscious activities and reward those actions that you want to encourage. Whether your company wants employees to get more involved in their community, make healthier choices, or be more environmentally conscious, Youtopia creates a friendly and competitive work environment that encourages everyone to get involved, do good, and get rewarded for it. It’s up to you to decide the focus of the system and how to apply it to guide behavior. [image of happy people using social media] Every time an employee completes an action, it is publicized on Youtopia and throughout their social network - advertising the company’s efforts. We also track and organize all of this beneficial activity, making it easy to share your company’s efforts with everyone.  

Youtopia is a robust tool that empowers you to activate volunteers according to your organizations unique goals - whether it’s increasing volunteer quality, encouraging healthier choices, deterring absenteeism, or any positive habits your organization would like to see it’s volunteers adopt. Youtopia provides you the ability to connect with a broad base of volunteers to choose the activist that is best suited for your particular needs. Joining Youtopia is more than simply being listed on a national database of volunteer opportunities. It's a chance to engage with your volunteers by acknowledging and rewarding their participation in your group. In addition, events, fundraisers, and one-time volunteer opportunities will all be posted to the Youtopia community - publicizing your organization’s efforts. Every time a volunteer completes an action, not only is it publicized on Youtopia, but the social networks of both the volunteer and the organization receive a status update - further advertising your organization’s good work. We also track and organize all of this beneficial activity, making it easy to share your organizations efforts with your community. Youtopia can also provide incentives for your organization’s own employees with internal competitions (e.g. whoever raises the most funds wins a reward). It’s up to you to decide the focus of the system and how to apply it to guide behavior. Youtopia is carefully designed to be a catalyst for conscientious corporate stewardship, engaged education and committed community service. Join the movement.

Simeon Schnapper, CEO
Simeon was born to the first Peace Corps directors of East and West Africa. From a very early age they instilled in him the promise of Utopia. Internationalized with an inherent entrepreneurial bent on life, he has lived on multiple continents and found success across industries including, but not limited to, disruptive technology, green manufacturing, strategic consulting and, for the last decade, serving as President of a 501c3. As Youtopia’s CEO, he brings a depth of knowledge and experience inspired by the lives of the eastern mystics with whom he has studied and worked. For Simeon, Youtopia fuels his passion for creatively solving the important problems of the world through breaking the constructs of orthodoxy. He is humbled to be working among seasoned Youtopians while translating profitable game dynamics into real-world impact.

Brett Singer, COO
There was a point over the last two decades when Brett realized that he might have a chance to change the world. Maybe it happened while working as a Senior Designer at The Oprah Winfrey Show. The inspiration may have struck while serving as Creative Director of a design boutique servicing Fortune 500 companies. Or it might have happened while producing and directing Dot, the award-winning independent feature film. In all honesty, it was probably all of the above. These experiences taught Brett that changing the world requires collaboration. It’s more about being a professional, than about being the boss. It’s about leading by example and trusting that people will follow. This philosophy of orchestrating creativity rather than ordering results, has always validated his golden rule: the best idea wins. It’s works for him in his role as a father and as a husband, and it’s working for Youtopia.

Demian Krentz, Creative Director
Demian’s calling has always been storytelling. It’s what is important to him and it is the answer to who he is. He constantly searches for opportunities to inject a whimsical twist into the mundane.  He finds joy in sharing a joke born out of truth, or an anecdote to help empathize with a friend. He lives to make a wry, disruptive observation or to craft a scene packed with enough subtly-honest details and unexpected moments that it requires a second look. As a Youtopian, Demian is distilling years spent working as a motion graphic designer for The Oprah Winfrey Show, into a new, dynamic visual style. He is bringing the full force of his talents as an illustrator and animator to bear on the enjoyable challenge of how to translate esoteric concepts into pictures. He is distilling his numerous credits as a producer of entertainment, both for stage and for film, into the engaging, social-media-infused story of Youtopia.

Nick Antista, V.P. of Life and Learning
Nick believes that everyone has the power to serve the greater good. This belief is the embodiment of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s words, “everybody can be great, because everybody can serve…You don’t have to know the second theory of thermodynamics in physics to serve. You only need a heart full of grace, a soul generated by love.”  Nick began his career in the business world as the co-founder of a technology company. Despite its success, he realized that building technology generated results but lacked substance. This led Nick to drop everything to serve. He earned two M.A. degrees in education, effected change through teaching in an inner city school, worked with local organizations to improve the school’s community, and went on to become an accomplished school administrator. In this role, he leads through a mission of service, inspiring a new generation to understand the importance of nurturing both the mind and the heart. He is now returning to his technological roots to build a system of substance – a system that will inspire both children and adults to use their unique talents to improve, to help, and to serve.

Devin Soule, Ambassador
Devin realized that he wanted to bring happiness to others at a young age. Growing up, he turned to community service as a means of creating change. Devin volunteered assisting the elderly and children with special needs, teaching at a community music school, and helping out at local soup kitchens and Habitat for Humanity projects. Devin graduated summa cum laude from DePaul University with a B.A. in Philosophy and a minor in Peace, Conflict Resolution and Social Justice. His studies focused on political, social and ideological structures and how to apply his theoretical explorations to create positive social change. Devin observed the inner workings of a community non-profit at the Chicago Freedom School over the past three years, where he worked with high school students planning social justice initiatives. These opportunities instilled in Devin the passion he brings to Youtopia for community service, education, and collaborating with others for the common good.